Paris

First edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons in blind-tooled compartments. Author, title and date in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fresh paper (a few rare pale foxing marks).
Handsome copy.
In December 1854, Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), then first secretary at the Frankfurt legation, was appointed secretary to an extraordinary mission to Persia, led by minister Prosper Bourée and ordered by Emperor Napoleon III. On the way to Persia, Gobineau traveled through Malta, Egypt and the countries of the Arabian peninsula. The second part of Trois ans en Asie is certainly the richest part of this work, a mine of information...

First edition, one of 25 copies numbered and justified by the publisher on japon paper, the only printing along with 25 on china paper.
Our copy was mistakenly identified by the publisher as belonging to the china issue.
Bradel binding in half burgundy cloth, smooth spine, black shagreen title label, pebble-grained paper boards, illustrated colour covers by Adolphe Willette preserved, slightly later binding signed Champs.
Poems by Henri Bernard, Maurice Boukay, Georges d'Esparbès, Louis Marsolleau, Roger-Milès, Maurice Vaucaire, Gabriel Vicaire, and others.
Illustrated with 17 original lithographs by Adolphe Willette, here in double state as in the deluxe...

First edition printed in very small numbers on “extra-strong” watermarked paper, about twenty copies or so according to the great contemporary art collector Bob Calle who published Christian Boltanski's catalogue raisonné.

Very rare work by Christian Boltanski illustrated with 5 photographs of an anonymous family.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pure Arches wire, the only to be enriched with three lithographs by Pierre Soulages, signatures of the author and the illustrator on the details of issue page, the “tirage de tête”.
The original lithographs in black and white, one on the first board of the cover, one as a frontispiece and one other on a double page, were printed by Mourlot.
Rare first book illustrated by Pierre Soulages.

An outstanding illustrated edition of the most famous Arabic tales in the world : One Thousand and One Nights [ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah]

L'édition d'art H. Piazza, Paris 1926-1932, 23,5x31cm, 12 volumes in original wrappers housed in slipcases.
Ilustrated edition with 144 watercolors by Léon Carré, stencil-colored and gilt by Saudé as well as 85 color plates by Mohammed Racim, one of the few advance and named copies, numbered in roman numerals on wove paper. This copy issued for the famous binder René Aussourd. Only deluxe issue after 300...

First edition of 253 copies and which was not printed on large paper.
Binding in full black morocco, spine in five compartments with gilt fillets and decorated with double gilt panels, gilt date at the foot, gilt roll tooling on the spine ends, frame of triple gilt fillets on the boards, iridescent mauve silk endpapers, frame of six gilt fillets and a strip of violet morocco on the pastedown endpapers, covers preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on the leading edges, slipcase lined with black morocco, comb-patterned paper boards with light scratches, sky blue felt interior, magnificent binding signed Maylander.
This work is complete with three inset portraits of Tristan...

Rare original photograph portrait of Charles Baudelaire: “Everyone knows this portrait, with its ecclesiastical aspect and its bitter smile”
Extremely rare original photograph on albumen paper showing Charles Baudelaire, contemporary print in carte de visite format, mounted on a board from the Carjat studio, 56 rue Laffitte: “The chap looks quite young. His hair is cut short and is wavy on the temples without covering the ear. The poet is wearing a blouse or a loose overcoat with a black velvet collar and a tie with a big knot. Everyone knows this...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Two small lacks to spine, light dampstains to head of front cover which also has two small corner lacks.
Dated and signed autograph inscription from Pierre Vidal-Naquet to Jacques Panisel.

First edition of this poem by Georges Fragerolle set to music by himself and performed for the first time at the famous Montmartre cabaret "Le Chat noir" by Rodolphe Salis on January 21, 1896, where he was the regular pianist alongside Erik Satie.
Publisher's sand-colored paper boards, smooth spine, covers illustrated with a large design representing the Giza Pyramids site surmounted by the dream of a Pharaoh's soldiers, endpapers and pastedowns with floral-patterned paper.
Work illustrated with 17 full-page lithographs by Amédée Virola.
Some rubbing to edges and corners, copy lacking its very fragile illustrated dust jacket.
Handsome copy.

Edition established by Henri Martineau and decorated with original illustrations by Tcherkessof, Cosyns, Noury, Dufour, Gandon and Jacob-Hians, one of 125 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy after 15 Japan.
Half dark blue morocco bindings with corners, faded spines with four raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spines preserved, top edges gilt.
Each volume is complete, as stipulated in the justification page, with the suite of illustrations placed at the end.
Handsome set, despite the faded spines, complete in 11 volumes and with the suite of illustrations for each volume.

First edition, one of 158 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the leading issue after 40 on Hollande.
A fine copy.
The following year, the work was adapted for the cinema by Louis Malle, starring Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Carla Marlier, Annie Fratellini, and Hubert Deschamps.

Edition of the French translation by Desaintange (Ange-François Fariau de Saint-Ange (1747-1810)), with the French version alongside the Latin. The very famous illustration comprises a portrait of Desaintange, a frontispiece, and 139 figures by Eisen, Moreau Le Jeune, Gravelot, Monnet, Boucher and engraved by Massard, Simmonet, Née, Leveau, Ponce, Binet, De Longueil... Most by Eisen and Moreau Le Jeune. Complete with the leaf showing placement of engravings after the title of volume I.
Contemporary binding in full blonde sheep marbled in green and brown. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartments in grotesque style (stars and small tools), with roulettes at head and foot (wide...